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By Bill Gutman, Anne Wertheim. 2002
By Daniel E. Harmon, Daniel E Harmon. 2002
Describes the land, people, geography, and wildlife of east-central Africa. Includes the countries of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Somalia, and…
Uganda. Focuses on their European colonization and subsequent independence. For junior and senior high readers. 2002By Jen Green. 2001
By Heather Lehr Wagner. 2002
An overview of the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1948 through 2001. Examines the history and personalities that have determined events since…
the founding of a homeland for the Jewish people. Describes Israel's effect on the displaced Palestinians and the neighboring Arab nations. For grades 6-9. 2002By Sophie Webb. 2000
A biologist records her two-month trip to McMurdo, Antarctica, with other researchers to study an Adélie penguin colony during the…
breeding season. She describes her travel preparations and the campsite, as well as the penguins' behavior while hatching the chicks. For grades 4-7. 2000By Garry Lyle, Gary Lyle. 1999
Describes the history, geography, and politics of this oil-rich southwest Asian country. Discusses the social and cultural life of the…
people, the rise of the Muslim militants under Ayatollah Khomeini, the 1980s war with Iraq, and tribal peoples such as the Kurds and the Luri. For grades 6-9. 1999By J. K Pomeray, J. K. Pomeray. 1999
Explores the history, culture, geography, and people of the island country of the Republic of Ireland. Describes its centuries of…
oppression, the revolution of 1916, and the continuing conflict with Great Britain. For grades 6-9. 1999By Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers. 2001
Former emergency room doctor records her ordeal with breast cancer during an eleven-month stay in Antarctica. Describes the dilemma she…
faced as the only medical officer for the forty-one members of the research team. Recalls the camaraderie that developed amid the extreme conditions of the 1999 polar winter. Bestseller. 2001By Caroline Arnold. 2000
Relates what archaeologists have learned about the huge carved stone statues called moai, which are unique to Easter Island. Describes…
the formation, geography, and history of this sixty-four-square-mile island--the most isolated inhabited place on earth--located in the Pacific Ocean. For grades 3-6. 2000By Mary Turck, Mary C. Turck. 1999
Examines the history of Haiti's ethnic conflicts and their continuing effects on its people. Chronicles important milestones and describes Haitian…
leaders. Discusses geography, religion, language, economics, and class divisions in terms of the nation's social problems. For junior and senior high readers. 1999By Kari Bodnarchuk, Kari J. Bodnarchuk. 2000
Describes the centuries-long ethnic conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples and its continuing effect on events in this African…
country. Chronicles the crisis of the mid-1990s and the resulting refugee crisis. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2000By Lulu Delacre. 1998
Presentan doce cuentos adaptados del folklore indígena de América Latina. Incluyen cuentos que remontan a los Tainos del Caribe, los…
Zapotecas de México, los Muiscas de Colombia, y los Incas del Per ̇y de Bolivia. Para grados 4 a 7 y lectores mayoresBy Alma Flor Ada. 1998
In this companion to Where the Flame Trees Bloom (DB 42823) the author continues the story of her childhood in…
a small town in Cuba. She reminisces about her uncles, a pilot and a doctor, and about the death of her beloved ballet teacher. For grades 3-6. 1998By Jennifer Armstrong. 1998
An account of the survival of a twenty-eight man crew whose ship for a 1914 expedition to Antarctica was marooned…
in pack ice. Explains the daily difficulties the men faced during their nine-month ordeal and Captain Ernest Shackleton's bravery to effect their rescue. For grades 5-8By John Morrison, John F. Morrison. 2003
By Joan E Goodman, Joan Goodman, Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Tom McNeely. 2001
By Albert Marrin. 1999
Depicts the seventeenth-century world and the life of Henry Morgan. Portrays a self-made man who rose from a humble home…
in Wales to be knighted by the Queen of England and to become lieutenant governor of Jamaica. Describes his plundering of Spanish towns along the Central and South American mainland. For grades 6-9By Susan E Goodman, Susan E. Goodman, Michael J. Doolittle. 1998
Describes a one-week field trip where eighth graders worked with archaeologists at Crow Canyon, Colorado, to learn how the Pueblo…
Indians lived. Explains how to conduct a dig to maximize scientific information. Examines some of the artifacts. Discusses why the Puebloans disappeared in A.D. 1300. For grades 5-8By Frances Mayes. 1996
American writer Frances Mayes finds a new lifestyle when she and her companion Ed purchase a large, abandoned, country home…
in Tuscany. The restoration of the house and garden are fraught with problems but also provide many pleasures. Mayes enjoys the flowers, the freshly grown vegetables, the cooking, and the quiet pace of sunny Tuscan summers. BestsellerBy Alma Flor Ada. 1994
Children's book author tells of growing up in Cuba with her extended family. She has picked stories from those "hanging…
in the branches of the trees of (her) childhood." Alma's blind great-grandmother Mina, who sold or gave handmade dolls to neighbors and gave gifts to her relatives according to their wealth and needs, managed to keep things in balance even though she never learned mathematics. For grades 3-6